Archive · Books · Heritage · New York
On 26 March 2026 a ceremony was held for the handover of 17 stolen antiquities and rare books with a combined value of more than $1.5 million. The items were seized in the course of an investigation into a network of illicit antiquities trafficking. Among the items returned were
NB! · Architecture · Museums · New York · Humour
The new building of the New Museum, the museum of contemporary art in New York. It has opened after four years of construction. One question: why so 2016?
Art · New York · Paris · Pop Culture
Dalí created the backdrop for the ballet Bacchanale, a surrealist production of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Dalí also wrote the libretto and designed some of the costumes for the production. Besides Dalí, the creation of the ballet involved Coco Chanel and Prince Alexander Shervashidze, the legendary set designer
Books · Mores · New York · Society
The 1980 Olympic Games at Lake Placid were accompanied by a serious scandal, one of the loudest in the history of the Winter Games, over the conditions in which the American side housed the athletes. The Olympic Village was set up on the grounds of a prison. Some American sources
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Aristocracy · Archive · Books · Observations · New York · Society · Paris · Saint Petersburg
Strange as it may seem, Pushkin and Eugene Onegin are mentioned in Epstein's correspondence. The context is yet another girl whom he is being urged to take on. It is reported that she is connected to the Russian imperial family, and that her great-great-grandfather, a certain
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Art · New York · Nature
A photograph by the Hungarian photographer André Kertész, 1971
Art · New York · People · Saint Petersburg
Leningrad-born journalist Katya Kazakina has been awarded, for the second time, the prestigious Front Page Award for women in journalism, presented by the New York Newswomen's Club. Kazakina is a senior reporter at Artnet News, where she writes the popular weekly column The Art Detective, covering the
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Art · Observations · New York
The auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s have tallied up the year. Christie’s projected sales came to $6.2 billion, almost 7% more than last year. After a quiet first half, sales picked up considerably in the autumn. The most expensive lot of the year was Mark Rothko’
Faith · The East · Museums · New York · Ethnography
Tibetan culture, late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Metropolitan Museum